Repairing Beyond Ambition - Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order fanfic *EDITING*

Chapter 4

"Proceed to line 5-D and report anything significant you find." A foreman droid instructed.

Another year had passed at the Guild and nothing really had changed, the trio would work together and perform their duties as instructed. On this particular day, Cal and Altheeda were working together and both of them nodded at their tasks. Cal lead the way as Altheeda swiftly swiped her tool box off the ground and followed shortly behind. They leapt across gaps between the junk of starships and climbed up various wires to reach their destination. When they finally arrived, they leaned against the metal scrap and gathered their breath.

"Is it just a check this time?" Altheeda asked.

"I think so." Cal shrugged.

"I thought we did this one recently?" She frowned as she picked up a wrench and fiddled with it.

"Well, we just have to do what we're told." He sighed with a small grin.

He stood back on his feet and took the headphones that wrapped around his neck and placed them over his ears. Altheeda could faintly hear the music that played and she smiled at it before getting to work. She first picked up her scanner from her tool box and began scanning the west side, as Cal had chosen the east end to work on. The cold, blue light emitting from it illuminated the areas of the metal as it made a dull beeping noise to signify nothing of importance.

They both continued to work for a large amount of time until a high pitch continuous beeping noise on Altheeda's scanner along with the blue light from it began to flash. She tutted under her breath and shut it off, lightly tossing it into her box. She knew exactly what was wrong and what was needed to rectify it. As she crouched and scrambled through her tools, she noticed her small welder was missing and her other welders would be too large to use. Altheeda let out a sharp breath and straightened up, looking over at Cal's direction.

He was continuing to scan his section, nodding to the beat of the music from his headphones and she gave a brief chuckle before approaching him.

"Cal?"

He was too focused to notice her presence next to him, simply analysing what was under his blue light from his scanner.

"Cal?" She repeated, slightly louder and dragged out.

No response, just a slight hum escaping his lips.

"Cal!"

Nothing. She shook her head before tapping his shoulder, to which he jolted at slightly, quickly turning his head to face her and took off his headphones, allowing them to rest on his neck once again.

"Is everything alright, Theeda?"

"Do you have a small welder? I need it for a quick break."

"It's not like you to not have all your tools."

"I know, I must have just misplaced it somewhere."

"That's not like you, either."

Altheeda raised a playful eyebrow at him and folded her arms. He smiled at her response then gestured over to her box.

"I didn't bring my tool box with me because you brought yours." Cal explained.

She tutted under her breath and put her hands on her hips. "I'll have to go back and grab one wont I?"

"Are you sure it's not in your tool box?" He asked as he walked over to her box and knelt down with her to have a look.

"Absolutely. Wait, didn't you borrow it off me the other day?" She asked thoughtfully.